The season of rambling acceptance speeches is at hand, prompting that nasty question: Why can’t award winners learn how to edit their gratitude? Or find an editor to help?
Peter Bart: Could Awards-Season Galas Help Cure Hollywood’s Movie Malaise?
06.01.2023 - 02:47 / deadline.com
The curtain is being raised Thursday night on what looks to be an idiosyncratic festival awards season, as organizers of the Palm Springs Gala to kick off the Palm Springs Film Festival with a hope that audiences somewhere, somehow, will start talking about movies.
Attendees are aware that their kids are lining up for the Avatar sequel but they themselves likely have not paid to see a movie this year — any movie. The customary excuse: There aren’t any new “grown up” movies around.
In fact, two heralded, big-budget ($80 million each), non-franchise movies aimed at grown-ups, Babylon and White Noise, are box office fizzles at year end.
Both shared a demanding theme for the holiday season. The characters in Noah Baumbach’s White Noise are obsessed about death. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is about the death of the silent film era.
While both delivered memorable moments and outstanding performances, studies indicated that segments of the audience felt assaulted, rather than entertained.
Meanwhile, the task of finding either mainstream or obscure releases like, say, Aftersun, or even Everything Everywhere All at Once, often demands detective work because of quirky release dates and the closure of many screens.
The Motion Picture Academy’s mandate against screeners has prompted its voters to borrow films from members of BAFTA or random guilds rather than plunge into the techno maze of its Screening Room.
Will voters respond? Five years ago, Oscar members felt apologetic if they’d seen Roma only once, given the relentless pressure from Netflix.
By contrast, many due at the Palm Springs event acknowledge they hadn’t seen Cate Blanchett in Tár or Steven Spielberg’s assemblage in The Fabelmans — again films of merit that
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